Dedicace Gallery has a long-term history of cooperation with Murtaz Shvelidze having presented his most popular works at different times. Several of his paintings are part of a permanent collection of the gallery. 

At the moment we would like to invite you to Murtaz Shvelidze’s exhibition The Western Sector. 

Murtaz Shvelidze’s paintings are direct and nostalgic resembling an album which offers kind of a “friendship diary”. Its images trigger a chain of memories about the relationships, ephemeral situations, emotions that are frozen in time. Here the topics of pop culture do not transform into critical and cynical messages of traditional pop art. The images of old posters, stopped film frames, TV sets and stadiums are presented in an artistic form that provokes youthful emotions in the visitors of any age group. This is a moment of perception when the universe is seen as a collection of magical stories and the images from pop culture connect to the personal experiences. Murtaz Shvelidze’s paintings with the fragments of the stadiums demonstrate heart-beat of the urban culture and revive associations and moods so well known to any football fan. The old TV sets and the “frozen” frames are transformed into sculptural objects to join a stream of the memories. The work Old TV Sets was created in 1999 for the exhibition “The Charm”. The other works that are displayed at the exhibition have been made recently and offer the new visions of permanently urgent issues.